TODAY IN HISTORY – August 18th
1949 - Born this day, Nigel Griggs, bass, Split Enz, 1980 UK No.12 single I Got You.
1952 - Born this day, Patrick Swayze, in Houston, Texas, dancer, actor (Dirty Dancing, Ghost), singer, 1988 US No.3 and UK No.17 single with Wendy Fraser, She's Like The Wind.
1964 - Over 9,000 frenzied fans met The Beatles as they arrived in San Francisco, to begin an American tour. The Beatles were driven into a protective fence enclosure so that photographers could take pictures. As the 9,000 fans pressed against the fencing, it gave way, with The Beatles managing to get out split-seconds before it came crashing down.
1965 - One of the decade's top fashion photographers, David Bailey, marries actress Catherine Deneuve in London, with Mick Jagger standing as the best man.
1966 - Paul Jones left Manfred Mann just as ‘Pretty Flamingo’ was climbing the US charts. He was replaced by singer Mike D’Abo, who would take over lead vocals on the bands next hit, ‘The Mighty Quinn,’ a song written by Bob Dylan.
1969 - Mick Jagger was accidentally shot in the hand during filming of Ned Kelly in Australia. The film was dogged by problems: Jagger's girlfriend of the time, Marianne Faithfull, had gone to Australia to play the lead female role (Ned's sister, Maggie), but the Jagger-Faithfull relationship was breaking up, and she took an overdose of sleeping tablets soon after arrival in Sydney resulting in being hospitalised in a coma, and pulling out of the film.
1969 - Two concert goers died at the Woodstock Music and Art Fair in Bethel, New York, one from an overdose of heroin, the other from a burst appendix.
1972 - Police fined Paul and Linda McCartney $800 in Sweden for cannabis possession.
1973 - Diana Ross scored her second US No.1 single with 'Touch Me In The Morning'. The song marked a turning point in her career, coming immediately after her Academy Award nomination for Best Actress in her acting debut, Lady Sings the Blues.
1976 - Variety reported that Marvin Gaye faced two consecutive five day prison terms in Los Angeles county jail for contempt of court, after failing to pay alimony and child support.
1977 - The Police made their live debut as a three-piece band when they played at Rebecca's Birmingham, England. The Police became globally popular in the late 1970s and are generally regarded as one of the first New Wave groups to achieve mainstream success, playing a style of rock that was influenced by punk, reggae, and jazz.
1977 - Two Missouri girls were killed and a third was critically injured when a car being driven by an 18-year-old Memphis teen swerved into a crowd of over 2,000 mourners standing in front of Graceland's music gate at about 4am. The driver was charged with drunk driving, leaving the scene of an accident and two counts of second degree murder.
1979 - Chic went to No.1 on the US singles chart with 'Good Times', the group's second US No.1, a No.5 hit in the UK.
1982 - The City of Liverpool named four Streets after the Beatles, John Lennon Drive, Paul McCartney Way, George Harrison Close and Ringo Starr Drive.
1984 - George Michael's first solo single Careless Whisper made No.1. It made George the first person to reach No.1 as a solo artist and a member of a band in the same year and gave epic records their first UK million seller
1992 - Kurt Cobain became a father when his wife Courtney Love gave birth to a daughter. (Frances Bean is her name)
2002 - Sugarbabes scored their second UK No.1 single with Round Round.
2005 - Kanye West called for an end to homophobia in the hip-hop community during an MTV interview saying ‘hip-hop was always about speaking your mind and about breaking down barriers, but everyone in hip-hop discriminates against gay people. Not just hip-hop, but America just discriminates, I wanna just, to come on TV and just tell my rappers, just tell my friends, 'Yo, stop it'."
2006 - Justin Hawkins the lead singer of The Darkness checked himself into the Priory rehabilitation clinic suffering from exhaustion after three years of non-stop work.
2010 - French beauty brand Etat Libre D'Orange announced that they have teamed up with The Sex Pistols to bottle the scent of the Punk era by launching the band's first fragrance. Company executives said "to wear this scent, you must resist tradition, fight conformity, and disregard aromatic conventions."
1949 - Born this day, Nigel Griggs, bass, Split Enz, 1980 UK No.12 single I Got You.
1952 - Born this day, Patrick Swayze, in Houston, Texas, dancer, actor (Dirty Dancing, Ghost), singer, 1988 US No.3 and UK No.17 single with Wendy Fraser, She's Like The Wind.
1964 - Over 9,000 frenzied fans met The Beatles as they arrived in San Francisco, to begin an American tour. The Beatles were driven into a protective fence enclosure so that photographers could take pictures. As the 9,000 fans pressed against the fencing, it gave way, with The Beatles managing to get out split-seconds before it came crashing down.
1965 - One of the decade's top fashion photographers, David Bailey, marries actress Catherine Deneuve in London, with Mick Jagger standing as the best man.
1966 - Paul Jones left Manfred Mann just as ‘Pretty Flamingo’ was climbing the US charts. He was replaced by singer Mike D’Abo, who would take over lead vocals on the bands next hit, ‘The Mighty Quinn,’ a song written by Bob Dylan.
1969 - Mick Jagger was accidentally shot in the hand during filming of Ned Kelly in Australia. The film was dogged by problems: Jagger's girlfriend of the time, Marianne Faithfull, had gone to Australia to play the lead female role (Ned's sister, Maggie), but the Jagger-Faithfull relationship was breaking up, and she took an overdose of sleeping tablets soon after arrival in Sydney resulting in being hospitalised in a coma, and pulling out of the film.
1969 - Two concert goers died at the Woodstock Music and Art Fair in Bethel, New York, one from an overdose of heroin, the other from a burst appendix.
1972 - Police fined Paul and Linda McCartney $800 in Sweden for cannabis possession.
1973 - Diana Ross scored her second US No.1 single with 'Touch Me In The Morning'. The song marked a turning point in her career, coming immediately after her Academy Award nomination for Best Actress in her acting debut, Lady Sings the Blues.
1976 - Variety reported that Marvin Gaye faced two consecutive five day prison terms in Los Angeles county jail for contempt of court, after failing to pay alimony and child support.
1977 - The Police made their live debut as a three-piece band when they played at Rebecca's Birmingham, England. The Police became globally popular in the late 1970s and are generally regarded as one of the first New Wave groups to achieve mainstream success, playing a style of rock that was influenced by punk, reggae, and jazz.
1977 - Two Missouri girls were killed and a third was critically injured when a car being driven by an 18-year-old Memphis teen swerved into a crowd of over 2,000 mourners standing in front of Graceland's music gate at about 4am. The driver was charged with drunk driving, leaving the scene of an accident and two counts of second degree murder.
1979 - Chic went to No.1 on the US singles chart with 'Good Times', the group's second US No.1, a No.5 hit in the UK.
1982 - The City of Liverpool named four Streets after the Beatles, John Lennon Drive, Paul McCartney Way, George Harrison Close and Ringo Starr Drive.
1984 - George Michael's first solo single Careless Whisper made No.1. It made George the first person to reach No.1 as a solo artist and a member of a band in the same year and gave epic records their first UK million seller
1992 - Kurt Cobain became a father when his wife Courtney Love gave birth to a daughter. (Frances Bean is her name)
2002 - Sugarbabes scored their second UK No.1 single with Round Round.
2005 - Kanye West called for an end to homophobia in the hip-hop community during an MTV interview saying ‘hip-hop was always about speaking your mind and about breaking down barriers, but everyone in hip-hop discriminates against gay people. Not just hip-hop, but America just discriminates, I wanna just, to come on TV and just tell my rappers, just tell my friends, 'Yo, stop it'."
2006 - Justin Hawkins the lead singer of The Darkness checked himself into the Priory rehabilitation clinic suffering from exhaustion after three years of non-stop work.
2010 - French beauty brand Etat Libre D'Orange announced that they have teamed up with The Sex Pistols to bottle the scent of the Punk era by launching the band's first fragrance. Company executives said "to wear this scent, you must resist tradition, fight conformity, and disregard aromatic conventions."